For those who don't know why conservatives hate this woman, about a year ago she filibustered a bill in Texas that would have had the effect of reducing the number of abortion clinics in the state from 44 to about 5. The bill banned abortions after 20 weeks (what this moron is referring to when he mentions abortions through all nine months) but also had provisions that required abortion clinics meet the standards of outpatient surgical centers, required abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, and required a doctor be present when a woman takes the medication for a chemical abortion. All of these are favored new tactics of pro-forced-birthers trying to throw up road blocks to prevent women from accessing abortion services under the banner of "we're just making things safer for women" (even though clinics providing similar and even more dangerous non-abortion medical and dental procedures don't have to abide by these same requirements and many of these guidelines haven't been proven to make abortion safer for women at all)
When Davis' filibuster was (unjustly, imo) ended prematurely (Republican Senators said she went off-topic by talking about forced-ultrasound laws in a filibuster about unconstitutional abortion laws- go figure), a combination of delay tactics by other Democratic Senators (including the awesome Leticia R. Van de Putte) and a "disruption"* from mostly-female anti-bill protestors in the Texas Senate gallery pushed the session past the midnight deadline before the bill could be voted on. Not that that stopped Republicans from claiming a vote had been taken in time with the bill passing, even going so far as to change the timestamp of the vote on the bill's official website (the original, correct timestamp of June 26th (just past the midnight deadline) was on the website first, then someone took that down and posted a timestamp of the vote on June 25th (just before midnight)) Of course, then governor Rick Perry just called for another special session where the bill passed anyway.
Sadly, thanks to the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, Wendy Davis has an uphill battle in her fight to be elected governor. Just one of the changes to Texas voting laws that was being held back by the VRA is a law that requires Texas voters to have picture ID with their current legal name on it. It's estimated that up to 1/3 of Texas women don't have the proper ID to be able to vote due to name changes associated with marriage and divorce, and poor Hispanic Texans are even less likely than that to have what they need to be able to cast the vote they're legally entitled to. While it may not be a big deal in smaller states for people to get a new ID, some Texans have to travel up to 250 miles to get to their nearest DMV (poor Hispanic areas are less likely to have one nearby, of course) and, irrc, even after that the cheapest option for proving your identity to get the updated ID is to shell out at least $25 for your updated birth certificate on top of the cost of the new ID itself.
* The "disruption" was quite spectacular and I recommend anyone who hasn't seen footage of it to go to Youtube. The women (mostly women, at least) in the Texas Senate chamber gallery were so angry at the disrespect shown to Wendy Davis and the general underhandedness of the Senate Republicans that their screaming and chanting was too loud for the Senators on the floor to be able to call roll or hold the vote. Democracy is action.
